[WSIS CS-Plenary] ITID's The World Summit in Reflection

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At 00:03 07/04/2005, Milton wrote:
>So Muguet's moral outrage was not even informed by fact. Typical.
>
> >>> ecarll@optonline.net 4/6/2005 4:31:12 PM >>>
>Congratulations to those who wrote articles for the ITID's The World
>Summit in Reflection. According to the website information "This work is
>licensed under a Creative Commons License." Therefore copying and
>distributing the online papers for non commercial purposes is
>permitted. See below for description.

It would be better for those participating in this on-line exchange,
particularly when they attempt a principled stance (to quote from the
previous post: "civility, political philosophy, and logical consistency"),
carefully to read the articles they criticise. Francis actually said:

>The /Information Technologies and International Development/ published by
>the MIT and self-proclaimed (sic) as "the premier journal in its field,
>focusing on the intersection of information and communication technologies
>(ICT) with international development." (URL removed) is not freely
>available online except for a few articles

It seems pretty clear that this refers to the Journal as a whole, not to
this special issue.

Cheers,

J.

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   At 00:03 07/04/2005, Milton wrote:

     So Muguet's moral outrage was not even informed by fact. Typical.

>>> ecarll@optonline.net 4/6/2005 4:31:12 PM >>>
     Congratulations to those who wrote articles for the ITID's The World
     Summit in Reflection. According to the website information "This work
     is licensed under a Creative Commons License." Therefore copying and
     distributing the online papers for non commercial purposes is
     permitted. See below for description.

   It would be better for those participating in this on-line exchange,
   particularly when they attempt a principled stance (to quote from the
   previous post: "civility, political philosophy, and logical consistency"),
   carefully to read the articles they criticise. Francis actually said:

     The /Information Technologies and International Development/ published
     by the MIT and self-proclaimed (sic) as "the premier journal in its
     field, focusing on the intersection of information and communication
     technologies (ICT) with international development." (URL removed) is not
     freely available online except for a few articles

   It seems pretty clear that this refers to the Journal as a whole, not to
   this special issue.

   Cheers,

   J.

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     Plenary mailing list
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